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mrstsk: “bowie is dead”. The three-word Facebook message — all lowercase — somehow reaches me on a barely-functional wifi network on the jetfoil between Korea and Japan. I get a burst of adrenalin, a surge of horror. Can this be a joke? If it is, it’s in very bad taste. I try to load the…
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Fred Armisen Talks Bringing Latino Comedy to the Mainstream With Launch of Más Mejor
Fred Armisen Talks Bringing Latino Comedy to the Mainstream With Launch of Más Mejor Some people just get it, and others miss. For all the crap we give him for not having any sort of Latino representation on Saturday Night Live and for letting that red-haired-ignorant-fool-running for the highest office in our country host, Lorne…
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The hyperlink was my currency six years ago. It represented the open, interconnected spirit of the world wide web – a vision that started with its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee. The hyperlink was a way to abandon centralisation – all the links, lines and hierarchies – and replace them with something more distributed, a system of…
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Bowie, Eno and serendipity
mostlysignssomeportents: Tim Harford (previously) writes, “My TED talk just went live – among other things it’s about Bowie and Eno’s creative process on the Berlin albums. It’s rather sadly timed but I hope you like it.” As always, it’s full of fascinating insight. http://boingboing.net/2016/01/11/bowie-eno-and-serendipity.html
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squinkyhatesvideogames: longstorygame: finnyd: LOOK HOW AWESOME THIS CHARACTER CREATION SCREEN IS LOOK HOW THERE DOESN’T NEED TO BE A MILLION OPTIONS FOR IT STILL TO BE SURPRISINGLY INCLUSIVE LOOK AT HOW EASILY THIS CAN BE IMPLEMENTED INTO GAMES. SO EASILY. LOOK AT IT RIGHT?! 🙂 I’m intrigued. me too
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artistsbooksandmultiples: David Bowie’s (well used) copy of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies.
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cinoh: evencleveland (Source: http://cinoh.tumblr.com/)
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Generating lots of ideas works well for improvements, but it doesn’t help to spot new directions. If companies don’t change the lens through which they assess ideas, they won’t be able to identify the outsiders they should seek, know what questions to ask them, and recognize their most valuable input. As a result, they will…
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The Mark Flood Experience Kills Painting (Again) | Artinfo
The Mark Flood Experience Kills Painting (Again) | Artinfo The underlying tactic shared among them is at least a partial abandonment of paint in favor of digital-based printing; as a surprisingly catchy song accompanying the animated trailer for this exhibition stresses, “brushstrokes are for snitches, brushstrokes are for bitches.” Chris Bexar’s print-on-canvas works are based…
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We have to think about inclusion, acceptance and diversity, to start. We need to think deeply about our language and communications, and the way we express what technology does. We need to question the mythologies we build around concepts like “founders” or “inventions” or even “startups”. We need to challenge our definitions of success and…